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n their new book, She Said, New York Times inves-
tigative reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
describe how they exposed Holly wood mogul
Harvey Weinstein’s alleged decades-long history
of sexual harassment and abuse of women. Their
seemingly endless pursuit of the story not only helped
reig nite the #MeToo movement (fou nded by Ta ra na
Burke in 2006) and upend long-standing gender power
dynamics within the workplace but also contributed to
their winning the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.
Weinstein didn’t make their jobs easy, of course. Kan-
tor and Twohey recount how he hired powerful law yers
to threaten them and the newspaper, randomly showed
up once at their newsroom to intimidate them, bullied
their sources into staying quiet, and even enlisted an
Israeli intelligence firm, Black Cube, to track them and
try to manipulate them into killing their story.
None of these tactics managed to deter Kantor and
Twohey, who were determined to make good on their
promises to Weinstein’s accusers that the piece would be
published. Their dedication paid off. In January 2020
Weinstein is scheduled to appear in court to face five
criminal charges, including two counts of predatory sex-
ual assault, two counts of rape, and one count of a crimi-
nal sex act. He has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges.
“Any allegations of nonconsensual sex are unequivocally
denied by Mr. Weinstein,” his spokeswoman Sallie Hof-
meister told The New Yorker in 2017.
InStyle photographed the reporters with their
daughters at Kantor’s home in Brooklyn and spoke to
them just ahead of the book’s release in the cafeteria of
The New York Times.
You dedicated this book to your young daughters.
What do you hope they’ll get out of it?
JODI KANTOR: Well, the funny thing is that two of those
daughters don’t even know who Harvey Weinstein is,
because Megan’s daughter was just 4 months old when
Megan started working on the story, and mine was a year
and a half. What we want them to know when they’re
older is that stories really can create social change. Care-
fully reported information can ricochet across the
world and cause people to reconsider their beliefs and
start productive, constructive social conversations.
MEGAN TWOHEY: I think that anybody who’s a parent,
whether it’s to a daughter or a son, cares deeply about
this issue of sexual harassment and sexual assault and
that everybody with children wants those children to
grow up in a world that values
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